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Terrence Terrell, known as "MOTAUR" from the Progressive Insurance commercials, EMMY Award-winning Actor, Author, Musician, and Philanthropist · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: is entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. My next guest is
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Speaker 1: Terrence Terrell. Let me just let y'all know a little
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Speaker 1: bit about him because I've been following him. He's Mota, y'all,
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Speaker 1: half man, half motorcycle, and those progressive motorcycle. Now I know,
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Speaker 1: all y'all, that black dude, that black dude on that
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Speaker 1: on that treadmill, on that Tramvior Bernie Rubble. That's my
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Speaker 1: man right here, Terence Turrell. We're gonna put the word
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Speaker 1: out by him. He's an Emmy Award when an actor, author, musician,
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Speaker 1: and philanthropist. He's appeared on Bosh for Amazon, Loved Him
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Speaker 1: On That Room, One on four for HBO, Batwoman for
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Speaker 1: the c W, and The First Wives Club for BT plus. Also,
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Speaker 1: he's a Raised The Giants, for which he won a
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Speaker 1: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Support the Actor. In the digital
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Speaker 1: drama series, Terence can be seen in series on the
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Speaker 1: series on New Truck Laurie Chuck Laura. If Chuck Laurie
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Speaker 1: calls you, then you start you get know your needs.
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Speaker 1: You said, thank God, because this man history on television
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Speaker 1: is legendary. For sustaining sitcoms on the air. But lets
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Speaker 1: go a little bit about this brother here. He's uh,
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Speaker 1: he's originally from Cleveland, Mississippi, so you have to use
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Speaker 1: the word humble beginneas with him. He's an h PC
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Speaker 1: in your law Mississippi Valley State. That's Jerry Ryans Country
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Speaker 1: Willie Todd, you know what I'm talking about, and currently
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Speaker 1: resides in Los Angeles, California. You know the beauty of him, man.
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Speaker 1: He has a book out that we're gonna talk about.
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Speaker 1: Is a self published children's book series and includes the
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Speaker 1: titles of Blackie, He's a previous book that he's written,
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Speaker 1: but my Little Black Book. The book promotes black beauty, inclusion,
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Speaker 1: and self love, which are some of the forces that
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Speaker 1: drive this young man as he builds his empire through
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Speaker 1: his talent, hard work, passion, and his commitment to making
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Speaker 1: other people better. Please work with the money making a conversation.
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Speaker 1: He had to change his background once he realized who
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Speaker 1: was interviewing him. He thought he was in the basement.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome terrors to be showing up the like, let me,
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Speaker 1: let me show out, let me get ready for you. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: hold up, hey man, Okay, who are you gonnagain? Hold on,
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Speaker 1: hold on, hold hold on. That's your background that ain't
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Speaker 1: know like uh like no, no little thing they just
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Speaker 1: put on like a little flip pitcher. Now that's me brother,
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Speaker 1: all of like, let me know you are about me.
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Speaker 1: Let me go ahead and do something where you're upgrading ground. Well,
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Speaker 1: first all, you're a handsome guy. So any background you'll
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Speaker 1: be in front of gonna work for you. So let's
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Speaker 1: go get that. That's gonna get that out to wait.
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Speaker 1: But you come from Cleveland, Mississippi. Now, I've been all over.
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Speaker 1: I have been in that city because, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I know about Cleveland, uh, Mississippi, Alabama, because I was
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Speaker 1: a stand up comedian. So I was going up and
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Speaker 1: down all the little towns man just trying to make
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Speaker 1: my career work. And and when you're trying to make
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Speaker 1: your career work, sometimes you have to do in play
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Speaker 1: places that on one on that schedule for start. And
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Speaker 1: so come from Cleveland. Now we're sighting in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: Told us about their journey because we have to stop
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Speaker 1: at the HBCU country that I mentioned in your intro
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Speaker 1: Mississippi Valley state. Because right now, HBCU brand recognition is
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Speaker 1: on fire. You have to be proud. Yes, Um, so
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Speaker 1: I was raised that while I grew up in Mississippi,
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Speaker 1: but my mom moved us to Cleveland at five and
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Speaker 1: I went to San Diego and then I came back
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Speaker 1: to Clean, Mississippi when I was fifteen because my grandmother.
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Speaker 1: You know, you go back to the South because somebody
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Speaker 1: is sick or you gotta help family, remember house, So
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Speaker 1: my grandmother had are open heart surgery, so I went
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Speaker 1: back to help her out. Um, and I end up
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Speaker 1: going to college at Mississippi Valley State there undergrad that
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Speaker 1: was undergrad then grad school. I went to Jackson State.
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Speaker 1: But I was a drum major at Mississippi Valley State.
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Speaker 1: So I was in front of the bage. Come on
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Speaker 1: that you that guy that did display not hey man,
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Speaker 1: let's let's let's talk about that man, because that's no joke. Man.
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Speaker 1: You're the drum major for a black marching band and HBCU.
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Speaker 1: Hey brother, you know, finally somebody understand when you say
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Speaker 1: drum major. They'd be like, oh, the person that played
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Speaker 1: a drum major is literally like the Michael Jackson of
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Speaker 1: the band. You gotta you gotta be, you gotta know
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Speaker 1: the steps, you gotta know the cues, you gotta know
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Speaker 1: the sections. You gotta be in control. So yeah, so
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Speaker 1: you know the gangster of what a drum major is.
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Speaker 1: I became a drum major freshman year, and that usually
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Speaker 1: never happens. You gotta be in the gym, not the gym,
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Speaker 1: but you gotta be in a band for at least
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Speaker 1: two years to do that. And I tried out and
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Speaker 1: I made it, and so I was a freshman drum
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Speaker 1: major and so you know, of course I had to
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Speaker 1: be very strong because you have people in the band,
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Speaker 1: like what seven years they ain't graduated, and maybe it
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Speaker 1: was just being a band, So yeah, it was. It
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Speaker 1: was a very cool experience. But I learned so much music,
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Speaker 1: so so many amazing things that you can learn. You
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Speaker 1: learn how to survive at HBCU. You of course get
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Speaker 1: your education, but you learn how to make a way
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Speaker 1: out of no way, right, and it's really important. You
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Speaker 1: sitting and because I don't want to, because we talked
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Speaker 1: about HBCUs and I want to go back to that
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Speaker 1: marching band experience because that's the cornerstone of what HBCUs
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Speaker 1: are known for. And you know, we know about sports,
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Speaker 1: but then the bands or that halftime show and then
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Speaker 1: you know, then you cast and throwing to HBCU. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know I did undergrad it Miss Valor State, and
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Speaker 1: then I did granted Jackson State with Dan Sanders, got
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Speaker 1: him two old tanning up all on the front baby ESPN.
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Speaker 1: They undefeated everything. Man, you have to be and Miss
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Speaker 1: Valor State home Hall of Famer Jared Rice. Man, you
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Speaker 1: have to be. Brother. You gotta have some HBCU photos
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Speaker 1: in frond your house. It's it's it's a great time
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Speaker 1: for hbc U, the greatest. But the funny thing is
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Speaker 1: coach Todd and he was at my He used to
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Speaker 1: coach at my high school, okay, at east Side High
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Speaker 1: and in Cleveland, and then when I went into I
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Speaker 1: think he left and went to Valley States. So I
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Speaker 1: marched into Titan Ross Rice Stadium on a weekly basis
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Speaker 1: just just the love and the energy that I got
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Speaker 1: from there. And then of course it was so funny
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Speaker 1: because you know a lot of people like you shouldn't
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Speaker 1: go to two HBCUs, you should go to undergrad at
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Speaker 1: one and then maybe you should go to Old MR
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Speaker 1: or something. But I was like, no, I'm gonna stick
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick from my HBCU and I'm gonna lose
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Speaker 1: Jackson State because you know, they say you won't look
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Speaker 1: upon as a serious college student if you went to
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Speaker 1: to h b c US. So, thank god out and
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Speaker 1: listened to quote unquote day whoever they are. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's always a day they said this, they said that.
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Speaker 1: But thank god I didn't listen to them, because I
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Speaker 1: learned a lot at Jackson State as well, and I
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Speaker 1: graduated from grad school at the age of one, and
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Speaker 1: I came out here and got right into the whole
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Speaker 1: background standing and everything. So yeah, it was it's been
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Speaker 1: a journey. I'm just blessed. Now you got a small guy.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're over six ft, right, I'm six ft
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Speaker 1: five and a half. Yeah, okay, so listen. That's the
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Speaker 1: other thing said. You are to see you on another level,
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Speaker 1: you know a lot, because you know, a drum major
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Speaker 1: that has to be at least six tall, and I
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Speaker 1: don't understand that for the A and M. When I
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Speaker 1: first saw them, those dudes, each one there was like
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Speaker 1: six nine because people have to see you absolutely, I'm like, okay, cool,
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Speaker 1: but they had after I left, they got a drum
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Speaker 1: major he was like five two or something. But you
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Speaker 1: have to be tall, so people, but then you also
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Speaker 1: have to be able to be tall and move and
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Speaker 1: fluid and so because it reads what I'm saying it
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Speaker 1: because you know, because college prepares you so so many things,
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Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna read I'm saying that as a
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Speaker 1: freshman he was a drum major and then HBCU ms
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Speaker 1: A Valleys date. Okay, right there. You know the the
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Speaker 1: amount of confidence is overwhelming in a sense because you
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Speaker 1: were blessed to be able to believe in yourself. Because
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Speaker 1: now you're taking that same courage, the same I've been out,
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Speaker 1: I've been there before, i've been in front, I've been
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Speaker 1: tested to l a and you're achieving a lot of success.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, man, and I love what you said
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Speaker 1: when people told you, hey, man, don't do back to back.
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Speaker 1: HBC used people drop in and trying. That's why always
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Speaker 1: tipped the front. Don't let nobody get in your dreams
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Speaker 1: or playing your future. Not your family, friends, coworkers, nobody.
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Speaker 1: That's why I always said it up time and you
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Speaker 1: you speak to truth right now, I'm telling you because
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Speaker 1: if you let anybody put the price on you everybody
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Speaker 1: loves a clearance cell. They're always gonna cheat you. So
9:34
Speaker 1: never let anybody tell you what you can't do. And
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Speaker 1: if you if they tell you, know you're just speaking
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Speaker 1: to the wrong person, right, So go found that person
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Speaker 1: and figure it out. But like you said, HBCUs taught
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Speaker 1: me a lot. It taught me drive, It taught me focused,
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Speaker 1: and it taught me never to take no for an answer.
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Speaker 1: Um and always there's always a will. Where there's a will,
9:53
Speaker 1: there's a way, and hard work always pays off. So
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Speaker 1: even when I got here, I wasn't thinking like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get discovered out of gas station. I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: where do I need? I know there's work to do.
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Speaker 1: Where do I need to do? Where do I need
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Speaker 1: to go to get that work to make sure I'm
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Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to be. And I went Scott to
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Speaker 1: acting classes and everything else and the rest is history. Okay. Cool?
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Speaker 1: And the cool part about it when we're talking here
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Speaker 1: about your career, about going through this whole process of
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Speaker 1: defining you, And that's what I love about when when
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Speaker 1: when I try to bring people on the show like
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Speaker 1: my my my show airs on YouTube, airors on but
10:29
Speaker 1: It also airs on nine HBCU campuses intentionally intentionally and uh.
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Speaker 1: And so when we talk about you man and representing
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Speaker 1: and your philanthropy, because we're gonna go we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: talking about a Little Black Book. Of course, we're gonna
10:42
Speaker 1: talk about be positive. But I really wanted to talk
10:44
Speaker 1: about you because you're an inspiration brother, you know, inspiration
10:48
Speaker 1: and a very well timed inspiration. And and I want
10:52
Speaker 1: to go to the famous commercial because you six five
10:55
Speaker 1: now as motak you don't look six five. You look
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Speaker 1: by five too because you ain't got no letter. He
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Speaker 1: got it right here too. The money, yeah, the motor
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Speaker 1: of it all, and it's so funny. I love the
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Speaker 1: ways you say confidence because I felt like I didn't
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Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence growing up. And that's why
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Speaker 1: I wrote these books of um like Blackie came from
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Speaker 1: me not liking my skin color. And so I say
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Speaker 1: all that to say. When I went out for the motor,
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not doing this. This is crazy.
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Speaker 1: They're not gonna pick me. Why me? And my best
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Speaker 1: friend jamaal Um he was like, tee, you gotta go.
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Speaker 1: It was raining the l a and something like they
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Speaker 1: don't be driving like gremlins in the rain. I'm not
11:36
Speaker 1: gonna be driving like forty minutes outside. So I was, okay,
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Speaker 1: let me just do it. And I went there and
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Speaker 1: I did it, and I got the call back, and um,
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Speaker 1: the director was so amazing. The first thing he did
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Speaker 1: he stood up, and that was unusual. He stood up
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Speaker 1: and came to me before I auditioned and gave me
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Speaker 1: a handshake, looked me in my eyes and told me
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Speaker 1: that there was only a couple of people I can see,
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Speaker 1: and you was one that I knew I needed to
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Speaker 1: see because of your confidence. And I'm like, but there's
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Speaker 1: a reason for everything. So I didn't go through all
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Speaker 1: the craziness and you know, the losses and getting all
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Speaker 1: those elves and then having to grow, I would have
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Speaker 1: not been the person I was, and you know the
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Speaker 1: man who I am now to actually even get into
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Speaker 1: the motor of it all because they said he exhumed
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Speaker 1: confidence and to me, I was like, oh, I'm just
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Speaker 1: being myself, right, Um yeah, because you have to be confident.
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Speaker 1: You have man have motorcycles. So you're really looking like
12:28
Speaker 1: who's looking at who are you in his world or
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Speaker 1: he in the our world? But it's all that, but
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Speaker 1: we got some amazing ones coming up on the fifte Okay,
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Speaker 1: you guys want to see a way more of his personalities. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we would let me know because I want to dropped
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Speaker 1: in on my social and my news my weekly news
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Speaker 1: letter to you know, because I've honor you, especially with
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Speaker 1: the fact that you know, I knew in your in
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Speaker 1: your body is only mentions Mississippi Valleys thing. So I
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Speaker 1: got a really honor you. You you're you're too tired
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Speaker 1: hbc U. You know, so that that's the love I
12:57
Speaker 1: got to give you a name. But that's all I
12:59
Speaker 1: was just saying earlier, is that is that because HBCU
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Speaker 1: and you being a drama to prepared you and a
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Speaker 1: lot of people trivialize things when it becomes part of
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Speaker 1: your personality, part of your success story. And that's all
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Speaker 1: that guy was saying when he walked up to you.
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Speaker 1: He said, you're confident and then has been so built
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Speaker 1: into you going out there, going out knowing what you
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Speaker 1: had to do, sind you since you was a freshman,
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Speaker 1: knowing what you had to give. Now, I was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: you march God, damn, I'm tell yourself. I'm telling your
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Speaker 1: best men do, Mr Terrence Direct. What you don't do
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Speaker 1: is mess with me, brother, what'na do? Because because the
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Speaker 1: beauty of you, man is that is when I when
13:45
Speaker 1: I look at your career. You know, we're going to
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Speaker 1: the boshow Amazon, you know, a batwoman, you know, the
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Speaker 1: First Wives Club, you know, comedy, you know, and then
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Speaker 1: you're playing a character that's not real, you're seeing through,
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Speaker 1: but you make it real. Because I remember how I
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Speaker 1: told my wife, I said, beebe and listen. I was like,
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Speaker 1: in the kid, I'm gonna interview motor. She said. I said,
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Speaker 1: the black dude who's hand man. He don't get it then.
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Speaker 1: And it's been such a blessing because the funny thing
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Speaker 1: is the grown men. I see grown men now they
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Speaker 1: go crazy about it. So a lot of people think
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Speaker 1: I'm Lebron James. When I have my mask man, the
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Speaker 1: guy follows and I always get like a random person
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Speaker 1: followed me through the grocery store and the guy followed me.
14:29
Speaker 1: I was like, here we go again, and he keen James,
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Speaker 1: and I took my mask off. I said no. When
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Speaker 1: I did take it off, I said no. He just
14:36
Speaker 1: stood there like, let me see my mask off, and
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Speaker 1: he screamed. You're like, oh, so he wouldn't leave. I
14:45
Speaker 1: took a picture with him. But it's like you get
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Speaker 1: the big motorcycle guys, tattoos and the beers. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: you're the MOLTOI You're the moltour. So it's it's so cool.
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Speaker 1: It's so it's just a blessing to being you know,
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Speaker 1: all right, I didn't. I wouldn't never thought. You know,
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Speaker 1: you come out here, you just think you want to
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Speaker 1: been there, man doing Jamie Fox, you know, pull it
17:40
Speaker 1: up on the error man. And because very few people
17:42
Speaker 1: allowing that gate, brother, you know that, you know you're
17:45
Speaker 1: walking the gates. Very few of us, you know, in
17:48
Speaker 1: those gates. And so I've been on Paramount lot w
17:51
Speaker 1: B lot, you know, all the Sony lots, you know
17:54
Speaker 1: all those blots. Man, when they say your name and
17:56
Speaker 1: then you you come on there so much, I'll go
17:59
Speaker 1: home by Terry. You know, that's when you go. Yeah,
18:02
Speaker 1: this is just the feeling I want to keep, just
18:04
Speaker 1: the feeling I want to have because that's that's that's
18:07
Speaker 1: a very small club, Tarantee, and you know that's a club,
18:11
Speaker 1: and it's a even with the show. This this is
18:14
Speaker 1: a real life and it feels so good because every
18:16
Speaker 1: character I've been blessed to play it's a mirror to
18:18
Speaker 1: real people. And my grandmother was one of dialysis dressed
18:22
Speaker 1: like Diana Ross, and she will always say she's making
18:24
Speaker 1: dialysis entertaining, how what's what? And so now I'm literally
18:29
Speaker 1: making dialysis educating people every week, but making it entertaining
18:33
Speaker 1: as well. So it's all it's it's but at the
18:36
Speaker 1: same time, I know it's a responsibility. So even walking
18:38
Speaker 1: I might be going too deep, but even walking on there,
18:41
Speaker 1: I'm like, Wow, Like the Sydney Portier's and all these
18:44
Speaker 1: amazing people paved the way for me to be here.
18:46
Speaker 1: So I take every day very very serious and I
18:49
Speaker 1: know that I'm in the space to allow more space
18:53
Speaker 1: for us. Absolutely, and you have to because you know,
18:57
Speaker 1: and you know the reason I really enjoyed talking to you.
19:00
Speaker 1: You know, first of all, I want to congratulate you
19:02
Speaker 1: on the daytime Emmy. I'll standing support the actor in
19:05
Speaker 1: the digital drive and you know what I'm talking about, Ima,
19:08
Speaker 1: And I tell people all the time I introduced a
19:10
Speaker 1: lot of people. They'll say, nominated five times, nominated for
19:16
Speaker 1: Image Award. You know what I'm saying. You know what
19:18
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I know, dude, when you win one,
19:21
Speaker 1: you best put that in your bio because it's rand
19:25
Speaker 1: It's the introduced how they got to be like Emmy Award.
19:28
Speaker 1: Because I'm still very humbles, I'm like you want to
19:32
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, yeah. When I get introduced Emmy Award,
19:34
Speaker 1: where actor, It's like, oh I I can I interview
19:41
Speaker 1: a lot of people nominated for Grammy, named nominated for
19:46
Speaker 1: and in me, dude, I said, I'm telling you had
19:50
Speaker 1: the longest bio I've ever read. But I said to
19:52
Speaker 1: I gotta tell everybody's story. I'm not I'm not gonna
19:56
Speaker 1: leave anything out. I'm not gonna shut change you because
19:58
Speaker 1: I knew you knew assist. So I don't know you personally,
20:02
Speaker 1: but your journey needs to be told. And when I
20:05
Speaker 1: when I see these things, like you know, daytime in
20:08
Speaker 1: me in the drama series, that's a whole about we're
20:10
Speaker 1: just telling no, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't slaunch that
20:13
Speaker 1: I introduced too many people in this show. Just say
20:16
Speaker 1: nominated as a credit. Okay, he's one. Okay. And so
20:21
Speaker 1: because I did that too, I remember, I remember I
20:23
Speaker 1: actually lost one of my Image Awards. You know, I
20:26
Speaker 1: lost it, you know what I'm saying because I didn't understand.
20:29
Speaker 1: My head was down, just grinding, grinding, grinding. So so
20:32
Speaker 1: I tell people I want two image I want three
20:35
Speaker 1: Image Awards for all lost one because I don't know
20:37
Speaker 1: where it is that you know. And now mad because
20:41
Speaker 1: when I wanted that, because I was the first one
20:42
Speaker 1: I want, and I didn't feel to see the value
20:45
Speaker 1: in it until now. So when you said mine's right there, hey, brother,
20:51
Speaker 1: you damn right this right there because you wanted you want.
20:54
Speaker 1: Keeps me humble though, because even after I wanted my
20:57
Speaker 1: manager call and she was. She drove me home because
20:59
Speaker 1: I was tired. I was on eight planes that week.
21:02
Speaker 1: I just wrapped a show I was doing at four
21:04
Speaker 1: am in Atlanta. I got on a plane at six
21:07
Speaker 1: guy here at twelve, got dressed, got on his on
21:10
Speaker 1: his red carpet one Emmy, and came right back home
21:13
Speaker 1: and went to sleep, and got back on the plane
21:15
Speaker 1: and left the next day. So it was it was
21:18
Speaker 1: a whirlwind. And I remember being a car where her
21:20
Speaker 1: We're driving and she's like, and the Emmys huge, just
21:23
Speaker 1: like this big. It came in a huge box. And
21:26
Speaker 1: she's like, you know, you gotta work even harder now.
21:29
Speaker 1: And I'm like, can I just get a couple of
21:30
Speaker 1: seconds to breathe? And she's like, no, You're gonna have
21:33
Speaker 1: to work even harder because people don't think that, you
21:35
Speaker 1: think you don't have the audition to do anything else.
21:38
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh no, never that. But that comes
21:40
Speaker 1: from the hbc U mindset, you know. I mean, it's like, okay, cool,
21:45
Speaker 1: thank you so much, we got that, but there's so
21:48
Speaker 1: much more to go. I'm talking to the star Terence
21:52
Speaker 1: to Rail, you know double HBCU are you know? Start
21:55
Speaker 1: the series be Positive of CBS, produced by the incredible
21:59
Speaker 1: Chuck glory Um. Just just just google his name. You
22:03
Speaker 1: go this brother's blessed tears was blessed and he told
22:07
Speaker 1: so the infamous black people listen up. He's small talk,
22:13
Speaker 1: but let's talk about your character. Be positive, man. You
22:16
Speaker 1: know you're an athlete. You know that really kind of
22:19
Speaker 1: like being humbled by this barbio dialysis talk about you
22:23
Speaker 1: because you really you know, when these characters, you know
22:26
Speaker 1: where they have a lot of lines, a lot are not?
22:28
Speaker 1: A lot are not? You still have to be able to,
22:31
Speaker 1: you know, give a range and give a thought process
22:34
Speaker 1: to where that characters is. You already got the natural bills,
22:37
Speaker 1: so you look like an athlete. In fact, you actually
22:40
Speaker 1: carried to lead out of one episode. How small as
22:46
Speaker 1: this guy eighty pounds talking was so funny because they
22:48
Speaker 1: said you have picked up so literally, I wasn't trying
22:51
Speaker 1: to like I didn't know until I watched it. I
22:53
Speaker 1: threw him up in the air. But when I saw
22:57
Speaker 1: he threw him in the area. But it's so funny
23:01
Speaker 1: because in high school and you know, you go through
23:04
Speaker 1: these different things. And I was skinny and my head
23:06
Speaker 1: always been this side since I was five. I always
23:09
Speaker 1: look like babo head looking thing. So I started gaining
23:13
Speaker 1: weight and getting bigger. I got hit one time playing
23:16
Speaker 1: football in high school and I quit. I never played
23:18
Speaker 1: so now so ironic, I get a football role and
23:23
Speaker 1: then I get to, you know, shine a light on
23:25
Speaker 1: my grandmother's actual journey through dialysis. And like you said,
23:29
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of work in multi cam. I've
23:31
Speaker 1: done single cam, I've done drama. Those are literally a
23:34
Speaker 1: walk in apart compared to multi camp. Multi cam. I'm
23:38
Speaker 1: on set. We're practicing Monday through Wednesday, and then we
23:42
Speaker 1: shoot Wednesday night. We shoot Thursday and Friday. So you're
23:45
Speaker 1: working and you're acting from your toes all the way
23:48
Speaker 1: up to your head. You're exhausted that night. So it's
23:51
Speaker 1: a whole different type of sport. Yeah, that's a sport.
23:53
Speaker 1: Multi cam is like going to the Olympics. It's like
23:56
Speaker 1: you have to especially if there's a live audience, so
23:59
Speaker 1: you have to make the joke, hold the joke because
24:01
Speaker 1: you gotta think about when people laugh. You gotta come
24:04
Speaker 1: back into the next line with the same energy that
24:06
Speaker 1: you left off without dropping. Right. It's a lot, right,
24:10
Speaker 1: you know, because I've done multis you know, Rod and
24:13
Speaker 1: produced Jamie Foxx and Sister Sister, so I know it's
24:17
Speaker 1: a lot of work, and even if you're not in
24:19
Speaker 1: that moment and on camera, you gotta stay there because
24:22
Speaker 1: the camera's on. They shot, Yeah, I think I was
24:30
Speaker 1: gonna said last week. And we did three weeks straight.
24:34
Speaker 1: Usually two weeks or two weeks, one week off. We
24:36
Speaker 1: did three weeks straight and I was doing my scene
24:39
Speaker 1: with Annelie and they said, okay, hold Terence moved for
24:42
Speaker 1: the light. I saw her light and he like, no
24:44
Speaker 1: to you. There's two cameras over. Let's talk about your book. Man.
24:51
Speaker 1: I don't want to leave this interview without talking about
24:55
Speaker 1: what's like. I said, you know, we go through these
24:57
Speaker 1: things and we um we forget it how we got
25:01
Speaker 1: where we are. And I feel like you never can
25:03
Speaker 1: forget where you You have to see where you were
25:06
Speaker 1: to know where you're going. So when I first started
25:08
Speaker 1: these books, I was very you know, in the South,
25:10
Speaker 1: we don't go to therapy, we go to church. So
25:13
Speaker 1: I end up morning therapy getting some stuff out. And
25:15
Speaker 1: I realized that I had a lot of insecurities from childhood.
25:18
Speaker 1: So I didn't like my skin colder. I told you
25:20
Speaker 1: about that story. So then I wrote a book about
25:22
Speaker 1: a little dark boy Lawns what Melan it is. It's
25:26
Speaker 1: called Blackie, which I've been called, but I turned into
25:29
Speaker 1: the acronyms be loving or doing Karen and kind of
25:31
Speaker 1: yourself about loving yourself. So for a little black boys,
25:35
Speaker 1: showing them that their kings. Um. And then I wrote
25:37
Speaker 1: the second one after my mother pass and she's Superheroes
25:41
Speaker 1: every Day, educates us on DNA. Then the fourth third
25:44
Speaker 1: book right here we go. Then the Crown kids were
25:47
Speaker 1: bringing all the kids together, and then this last book
25:50
Speaker 1: happened after the George Floyd. Um, I was. I'm a
25:54
Speaker 1: mentor for Mrs Tina Knows loss In and Mr Richard
25:57
Speaker 1: Tina's Angels and Richard's Law Uh Warriors, and we had
26:02
Speaker 1: the week of George Floyd. The kids we had we
26:04
Speaker 1: meet with them every Monday and they were crying, like, hey,
26:08
Speaker 1: just imagine eighty kids in the zoom call you see
26:10
Speaker 1: these windows and you can't touch them and hug him
26:12
Speaker 1: and let them know it's gonna be okay because of
26:14
Speaker 1: the pandemic. And they were crying and I'm turning my chair.
26:17
Speaker 1: I'm crying, as Teena's crying. Everybody's crying, and um, the
26:20
Speaker 1: Asian one of the little girls, just like are they
26:22
Speaker 1: all kill me because of my I'm black, you know,
26:25
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be on the news and get shot
26:27
Speaker 1: down because I'm black. And I just remember leaving a
26:30
Speaker 1: meeting like what I'm not doing enough. I'm not doing enough.
26:32
Speaker 1: I need to show them that they're special that, you know,
26:35
Speaker 1: and um, skin Deep came up where when I tried
26:37
Speaker 1: to wash my skin color off, and so that's when
26:40
Speaker 1: I knew animated short that we're going up on Oscar for.
26:43
Speaker 1: And then my Little Black Book where I'm educating the
26:47
Speaker 1: kids on different things like you know, to sell the
26:50
Speaker 1: marsh but also all these amazing inventors you know where
26:54
Speaker 1: in the world would literally be dark, you know, because
26:57
Speaker 1: we were responsible for the lightbulb as well. So so
27:00
Speaker 1: my Little Black Book. So it's a series of book
27:02
Speaker 1: and the whole brand is called Crowned Me because we
27:04
Speaker 1: don't need to wait for anybody to tell us we're special.
27:07
Speaker 1: You crown yourself and you tell yourself you're special. Because
27:10
Speaker 1: in the books, the kids don't get any special powers.
27:13
Speaker 1: The power comes from self love and self worth. At
27:16
Speaker 1: the same time, I knew I had to own it,
27:18
Speaker 1: so I own all my books, self published them, so
27:21
Speaker 1: I own them right out. So money, money making conversations, right.
27:25
Speaker 1: I got my ownership because we don't get top half
27:28
Speaker 1: of the stuff that other people already know from from birth.
27:31
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know what an investment account
27:33
Speaker 1: was until a couple of days ago. I'm still learning.
27:37
Speaker 1: We just have to open our minds to different things,
27:39
Speaker 1: like now, how can we get this book is on
27:41
Speaker 1: your website? Yeah, here we go, money make coming right?
27:46
Speaker 1: So you go to I crown me dot com, which
27:48
Speaker 1: is my website. At first, I wanted to be on
27:50
Speaker 1: Amazon all these other stuff. But Amazon takes fifty to
27:54
Speaker 1: seventy percent of your money if you sell on there.
27:57
Speaker 1: So I'm like, so I sold a hundred and some
28:00
Speaker 1: of the books there, and I remember getting a check
28:02
Speaker 1: for less than two hundred dollars. This is my work.
28:05
Speaker 1: Why am I giving you seting percent of my work?
28:07
Speaker 1: And all y'all doing is put on website. So I
28:09
Speaker 1: was like, let me do my own website and make
28:11
Speaker 1: sure it's you know, efficient and so and plus I
28:14
Speaker 1: like to sign each book and let the kids know
28:16
Speaker 1: that I see them physically. It's a lot of work,
28:18
Speaker 1: but I did it that way so I can own
28:21
Speaker 1: my own stuff and now with these conversations coming up
28:24
Speaker 1: this week, with dream Works and all these amazing people
28:27
Speaker 1: who want to buy into my books or create the
28:30
Speaker 1: series out of it. I it's just me. I don't
28:32
Speaker 1: have to worry about a room full of people who
28:34
Speaker 1: own part of my work. It's just me. I own
28:36
Speaker 1: everything all the way down to the eyebrows. I love it, man,
28:40
Speaker 1: And you know the beauty of this interview. Man, it's
28:42
Speaker 1: just talking about a self built person. You know what
28:46
Speaker 1: I'm saying, motivated by and not denied by who you
28:50
Speaker 1: are because we don't get those those those people who
28:52
Speaker 1: those people who try to I call him to step
28:55
Speaker 1: into your dream and making an ugly experience. And you're
28:59
Speaker 1: saying right now, your size, we're gonna stop you. When
29:02
Speaker 1: you was born, we're going to stop you. Your color,
29:04
Speaker 1: your skin wasn't gonna stop you. Then you flip the
29:06
Speaker 1: switch and you're there for people who don't look like you. Yeah,
29:11
Speaker 1: we have to we have to give it back. And
29:14
Speaker 1: we can't fight this, this these crazy times with hate.
29:17
Speaker 1: We can't fight the quote unquote racist with Hey, we
29:20
Speaker 1: have to fight them with love and education. So you
29:24
Speaker 1: can't fought somebody for being ignorant to a subject. Yeah,
29:29
Speaker 1: I mean we can educate them on that subject and
29:32
Speaker 1: after you do what you After I give your information,
29:34
Speaker 1: you do what you want with it. But I've done
29:36
Speaker 1: my part in this moment. So we just have to
29:38
Speaker 1: leave with love. And I really really believe in that
29:40
Speaker 1: and everything that you're going through. You know that's happening
29:43
Speaker 1: for a reason. So the single mom, been on whearfair
29:46
Speaker 1: food stamps, all that stuff built character for me. Now,
29:49
Speaker 1: so I know that all of that happened for a reason.
29:52
Speaker 1: So you have to walk and cry. You don't get
29:54
Speaker 1: to sit and cry. You gotta walk and cry. CBS.
29:58
Speaker 1: Be positive. That's the perfect name for who you are. Brother.
30:01
Speaker 1: You are positive for man. When I just said it
30:04
Speaker 1: and just looked at you smiling, when keep you couldn't
30:07
Speaker 1: be on the better show this associate with your brand, man,
30:09
Speaker 1: because you're positive. It's been and Chuck Lori of all
30:13
Speaker 1: people and mark them what they were like, yeah you
30:19
Speaker 1: know he did this? This This was like yeah, what
30:23
Speaker 1: he can actually stop straight to the topazing he's rich man.
30:27
Speaker 1: And so again I want to I'm gonna put the
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30:31
Speaker 1: you some direct money making conversation. He did it. I'm
30:35
Speaker 1: gonna dropping in there. But more importantly, man, uh, I'm
30:37
Speaker 1: looking forward to the commercials who tell your team to
30:39
Speaker 1: get back to new Motar commercials so I can get
30:41
Speaker 1: on my social media and just start helping you promote
30:44
Speaker 1: your brand because as they say, you be positive, brother,
30:47
Speaker 1: because you stay positive because you are positive. Okay, thank
30:51
Speaker 1: you for doing what you're doing. Thank you for keeping
30:53
Speaker 1: This is the best tererview R I've ever had. You
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Speaker 1: did a drum major move, so I'm good. This is
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Speaker 1: I didn't thank you? God? It going on? Didn't want
31:18
Speaker 1: to be you, didn't want to be you. That's going
31:21
Speaker 1: hold hey, I'm telling something. I love you boy man again. Brother,
31:28
Speaker 1: thank you for changing your set right if you came
31:32
Speaker 1: with the fire, I was like, hold up down, you
31:34
Speaker 1: ain't about to get me. Let me go switch. I'll
31:36
Speaker 1: be right there the kid man. I love your brother,
31:39
Speaker 1: and know that on your I'm on your list and
31:41
Speaker 1: get this stuff I asked of you, and uh because
31:43
Speaker 1: I want to sell some of your books and more
31:45
Speaker 1: important that I I want to just keep pumping you up.
31:47
Speaker 1: Because brother, you fight, you fight. Thank you and thank
31:49
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31:51
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